How about being the sole employee of a shopping mall where the only one customer ever is Barbra Streisand? Sounds strange, well, the story may be fiction, but the mall is real. According to “My Passion for Design” by Streisand, there is indeed a mall built in the basement on READ MORE >
The biggest attraction in NYC this summer is the rain! More specifically, the “Rain Room” at the MOMA. The contemporary art group, Random International, has created a digital installation that gives visitors the chance to experience how it might feel to control the rain. In ‘Rain Room’, the sound of READ MORE >
In 2013 Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley-based electric car company posted its first profits. The ten-year-old Detroit challenger gained widespread attention by producing the Tesla Roadster in 2008, the first fully electric sports car. Since then Tesla has released the Model S and has supplied electric powertrain components for Daimler READ MORE >
As designers and visual communicators, we owe much to the brilliance of modern masters like Milton Glaser. Best known for the I ♥ NY logo, his Bob Dylan poster and the co-founded New York Magazine, Glaser was more than a founder of modern graphic design, he’s a brilliant theorist and READ MORE >
Moss! Yes, Michael Moss, the design visionary behind the Moss store in SoHo has applied his world famous eye to the Philip Johnson Glass House museum by way of organizing and selecting merchandise for the Glass House Design Store. For those who haven’t visited, the Glass House is the former private READ MORE >
Last month YouTube turned eight years old and also announced that it has surpassed 100 hours of video uploads every minute with one billion people accessing its content every month. Now that’s something to celebrate. Since the 2005 launch, YouTube has become part of many people’s everyday lives. From “Charlie READ MORE >
Previously, Facebook users could only search for brands or friends by name and location, but now, thanks to Facebook’s new Graph Search feature, users can find out specific information including their friends’ favorite films, restaurants, likes and dislikes, work and education history and more. Graph Search was rolled out last READ MORE >
Watch Dogs is a new video game set in an alternate reality Chicago where everyone and everything is linked through a central network—like something out of a sci-fi film. To promote the game, marketers developed real versions that pull together mountains of data about Paris, Berlin, and London—and the effect is READ MORE >
Who are those girls who join the stage night after night with Bruce Springsteen, Lauren Hill, Stevie Wonder, Mick Jagger, Sting and Tina Turner? We didn’t know either until we checked out 20 Feet From Stardom. This new documentary sets out to shine the spotlight on the true, untold stories READ MORE >
Sennheiser is known for high-end audio quality with a rather clunky design, but that all changed with their new Momentum headphones, available in 10 super cool colors. These over-the-ear headphones are a smaller, neater version of the first Momentums—in fact, they pack the same incredible audio innards only this time READ MORE >